As for the make-up days, state law requires public schools to have a minimum of 185 days or 1,025 hours of instruction. The law also requires that schools end the year by the Friday closest to June 10. That has some school districts extending the school year by two days to June 12.

Gov. Pat McCrory says his two-year budget proposal for legislators would give North Carolina public school administrators more flexibility to offer raises to experienced teachers and to pay for textbooks or computers for classrooms. 07:51 AM

In this series, "Through My Eyes," Time Warner Cable News reporters speak with African-American youth and adults about the issues black males face and how they feel in today's America.
How has the country progressed since the Civil Rights marches of the 1960s and how do African-American men feel they are perceived in today's world?
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Wilson County deputies along with the FBI continue searching for the three men who allegedly stole $4,000,000 worth of gold from a semi-truck parked along mile marker 114 on Interstate 95. 03/02/2015 08:35 PM

North Carolina State University police are investigating a report of a sexual assault at a fraternity house early Sunday morning. They say the victim reported being assaulted at a party at the Alpha Tau Omega frat house on Varsity Drive. 03/02/2015 01:05 PM